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   "text": "Generation parity is a governance principle with no analog in Ostrom's eight: it requires that reputation accrual rates on the first-order generative surfaces, on the execution surface, and on the cross-surface reflection surface lie in a triple ratio bounded above and below.",
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   "text": "If execution dominates the triple ratio, the system collapses back to HDCA: agents allocate compute exclusively to selection, the action set remains static, and recursive equilibrium degenerates to repeated execution-game equilibrium.",
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   "text": "If first-order generation dominates the triple ratio, the possibility space inflates rapidly without execution discipline: proposals proliferate, few are funded or executed, and fidelity collapses.",
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   "text": "If reflection dominates the triple ratio, a meta-reputation aristocracy forms: agents specialize in reflecting on others' allocations without contributing to the first-order surfaces, reflection validator pools drift away from cross-surface competence, and the contraction property of the composite map is lost.",
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   "text": "Generation parity is a parameter requiring ongoing governance attention rather than a one-time boundary specification, because the optimal triple ratio depends on the agent population's composition and on demand-side dynamics, both of which evolve.",
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